Ceng Shiqiang, a master of Chinese studies, said: One yin and one yang is the Tao, and the Book of Changes is the great wisdom that must be read in life.
The first time I met Ceng Shiqiang, it originated from the mystery of the Book of Changes he explained in Lecture Room. It is humorous, easy to understand and beneficial to people.
One yin and one yang are called Tao.
It is easy to have Tai Chi and give birth to two instruments, which is called Yin and Yang. The beginning of nature is the source of all things' biochemistry, from which all things come.
How can the world be endless? It is precisely because of the diversity of species and the interaction and agitation of different factors that it will be endless. Without contradiction, there will be no change; No change is death.
One yin and one yang are called Tao. It's not Yin, it's Yang. But the change of nature, everything in the world is nothing more than-natural gestation. But there is a truth behind it, and this truth is eternal. Natural change is the way of yin and yang.
Yin can become Yang, and Yang Can can become Yin. Bad people are not necessarily bad people, just do something good occasionally; Good people often do bad things. This concept has a great influence on China people.
We in China think that one contains two, and one is the center.
Westerners believe that yin and yang are two different things.
China people think that Yin and Yang are one thing, and one thing contains two components, one is called Yin and the other is called Yang. Together, it is called Tai Chi. Tai Chi divides Yin and Yang. First, it is Tai Chi; If you say two, it is Yang and Yin.
In the west, points are greater than combinations.
China is divided into two parts, and how to divide it is inseparable from the combination.
Westerners look at the earth and see the end, and they will see a result. He said it was split in half.
China people have different views. He thinks that life is two, two is three, and three is everything.
Mr. Wang is a wise man and a master in management. Throughout his life, he wrote books, traveled and lectured, and traveled all over the world. He took the promotion of Chinese orthodox culture as his mission and greatest pleasure, and made unremitting efforts until the last moment of his life.
20 16, Mr. Wang broke down from constant overwork.
In a video circulating on the Internet, he told his life after illness optimistically in front of the camera.
He said: "Life and death are life, and that process is very important. We should appreciate this process. So I often look out by myself. The old man has cancer, and it has spread, so there is no way to operate. He is over eighty years old and can't stand the torture of chemotherapy. So what should we do? Then we must face it happily. Therefore, when people come to see me, they all look at me with a smile. It's nothing. They don't complain, nor do they complain there. "
About humans.
Teacher Wang has three proverbs: everyone has a conscience, always be fair to the public and be the first.
In just fifteen words, it explains the truth of being a man simply and clearly. The recovery of social morality is not a popular slogan, but a concrete action from everyone. Everyone acts according to his own conscience and transmits positive energy to the people around him through his own behavior, so as to gradually form a good social atmosphere.
What good is conscience?
In the modern society where laws and regulations are gradually improving, is the guidance of "conscience" still of practical use? In fact, the litigation divination in the Book of Changes has already answered this question.
Shuowen said: "Litigation is also a struggle. It is also a public statement. " The word litigation is spoken on one side, that is, it is spoken, and on the other side, it is open, that is, for everyone to listen to.
Why do people "sue"
The lawsuit said: Blessed, remonstrated and auspicious; The ultimate killer Good for adults, not good for mountains. Happiness is credit, honesty, suffocation is suffocation. Once the integrity between people suffocates, credit begins to go bankrupt, and the two sides distrust each other, which leads to disputes.
Everyone doesn't act according to their conscience, and no one trusts anyone. If they don't keep their word and secretly speculate on others, naturally they won't have a sense of trust.
Westerners do things according to the principle of legality, while China people demand not only legality, but also rationality. Every decent China person has not broken the law, and China people are just doing things that are not stipulated by law.
We should "abide by the etiquette system according to our conscience". Confucius attached importance to "ceremony" and thought that the ceremony system was the most important. Because the people of China have great flexibility, our system will always be flexible.
What is the basis of the flexibility of China, China and China?
Two words: morality. Morality is the highest belief of China people. Anyone who does anything against morality, even if there is no legal provision, will be cast aside. The final result is that ten thousand people condemn it and go away.
Life is self-growth under constant difficulties and obstacles. We always thought that life was simple-the government made laws and everyone acted according to the law. This model has not been realized for five thousand years.
Therefore, we still need to be conscientious and take care of ourselves. It sounds like nonsense, but it turns out to be the most useful. This is a good inspiration from the Book of Changes.
Why should it be made public?
People are social, and each individual is interrelated and interdependent, which jointly promotes the progress of human society. This is "Gong".
"Book of Rites Li Yun" said: "The trip to the avenue, the world is public."
Shuowen said: Fair, equal share. Back private also. It can be seen that to be "fair" in the crowd, we must treat everyone equally and not have too much selfishness. This is the Fan Gua in the Book of Changes.
Colleagues are people who try their best to work towards the same goal. If they work together, the effect will naturally be good. It is not easy for people to be the same person, because everyone grew up in different environments and has different outlook on life and values.
We can't ask everyone to be exactly the same, because that is not only impossible, but also unnecessary. But at the very least, we must understand that only by seeking common ground can we put aside our differences. This is called similarity.
Confucius put forward the highest ideal of mankind, that is, the world is a family, in our current words, called the global village. However, we find that the implementation of the global village is not very smooth now, and the world harmony still exists in name only, which requires our joint efforts.
The same person divination: the same person is in the wild, the same person is constant, the benefit is related to the mountain, and the gentleman is virtuous. "Wild Companion" tells us that it can only be achieved from near to far, from near to sparse, step by step and equally.
Therefore, it is easier to do everything in a process, and it is easier to push it out slowly from the inside out and from near to far. It is not easy to treat everyone in the world equally at once. Working together requires a principle, that is, we often say to seek common ground while reserving differences-sum up what we have in common and meet each other halfway in different parts, and naturally our views will be very close.
Gentlemen will get together, but racial differences do exist. We just want to do it, and we can try our best to do the same. No way is the same. We respect, understand and tolerate each other with different ingredients and different performances. This is called Datong, which is very difficult to achieve.
Therefore, in the hexagrams of the same person, only "the same person is in the wild" is used, and we are not told that "the same person is at home". The colleague is not at home, so the family divination says he is at home.
In other words, at home, we can take care of each other by family, but when we are out, we must do one thing-guide our feelings with reason.
Teacher Wang taught us to "always take the public as the public", that is, to practice what colleagues said on June 9: There is no blame for being at the door with colleagues. First of all, we should turn private into public, turn private into public, stand out for justice, always put ourselves in others' shoes, open our hearts, compare our hearts, and communicate with people aboveboard, so that we can naturally be blameless.
Conscience or public interest, if it only stays in words, can be said to be worthless. So in the end, Mr. Wang clearly pointed out that we must "be yourself first."
Mr. Wang once said: "China people are the most reasonable people in the world, but they are also the most difficult people to reason with China people." Everyone can tell the truth, but not everyone can.
So, do it first.
Mr. Yangming practiced penance in the southwest, and Longchang once realized the Tao and came up with four words: "Unity of knowing and doing". Dr. Sun Yat-sen has been wandering all his life and has always emphasized to his comrades that "it is easier said than done". These are similar to the "first act" advocated by Mr. Wang, which shows the importance of the word "line"
In the Book of Changes, divination that emphasizes "walking" means performing divination, and performing divination means performing. The whole divination is practicing heaven.
Follow the hexagrams: follow the tiger's tail, not people, constant. "Walking on the tiger's tail" means walking behind the tiger's tail all the time. If you accidentally step on its tail, you will die. "Ha" means to bite. You are smart if you step on the tiger's tail and the tiger doesn't bite you. This "constancy" means that people are glad that they have not been bitten by tigers, which is the real prosperity.
This tells us that the journey of life is full of crises, and the reasonable way to get through the crisis is to act according to the truth. "Treading" is similar to polite "ceremony" and rational "reason", that is, politeness, etiquette and reason should be implemented according to reason.
The practice of divination can be divided into three levels. The most basic level is to fulfill legal obligations and not do illegal things, which is the most basic requirement for everyone. On the level of legitimacy, we should improve it a little, that is, all interpersonal relationships and daily use are spiritual and reasonable expressions, that is, we should be conscientious, treat the public fairly, abide by social morality and constantly improve our self-cultivation.
So what is the highest state of perfection of heaven?
Is to have love in your heart. "Benevolence" is the highest moral principle, moral standard and moral realm, and it is the way for China people to be a gentleman.
Mr. Wang has written a lot in his life, including the Enlightenment of Hu Xueyan, The Mystery of the Book of Changes, Family Education, The Art of War, and Manpower Automation.
65438-0979, Mr. Wang gave a lecture in Singapore, full of vigor and foresight. During his long-term study of Chinese and Western management thoughts, he first put forward the idea of "Chinese management" by combining the essence of China traditional culture.
In his view, China's humanistic customs are very different from those of the West, so we should not blindly imitate and follow the western management model, but use China people's own methods to solve the problems of China people, so as to get twice the result with half the effort. It can be said that the China model is the first to go to the world.
Later, while spreading the idea of "Chinese management", Mr. Wang gradually turned to education at the social level. He has taught students in Peking University, Tsinghua University, Nankai University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Lingnan University, Sun Yat-sen University, Liaoning University, Zhejiang University, Tianjin University and university of international business and economics.
Therefore, it is known as "the father of management science in China".
Mr. Wang once said that all the knowledge of China people is finished in one sentence, that is, one yin and one yang is the Tao.
A few years later, the wise man died, but the phrase "one yin and one yang" still echoes in my ears.
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